145 Quotes by James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Suicide is not a remedy

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.